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The unraveling of Mérida

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The unraveling of Mérida

“The darkness of the offices.” This is what most surprised Blanca Portillo during her fleeting experience as director of the Mérida Classic Theater Festival, Spain’s most important event of its type, which is staged at the magnificent Roman theater in…

Viggo and Carme explore forgiveness

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Viggo and Carme explore forgiveness

Not even the handsome and famous are entirely free from stage fright. On Friday, actors Carme Elias and Viggo Mortensen opened the Madrid premiere of an Ariel Dorfman play called Purgatorio (or, Purgatory). And it may be that all the…

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Disgraced former head of SGAE files 800,000-euro lawsuit over dismissal

Eduardo Bautista, the former president of the SGAE Society of Authors and Publishers who was arrested on July 1 as part of an investigation into misappropriation of funds, has launched an unfair dismissal suit against the entity.…

"It makes me feel posthumous"

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"It makes me feel posthumous"

Joaquín Sabina greets EL PAÍS in espadrilles inside his beautiful home in the heart of Madrid, surrounded by seven cats who ignore him, unsettling paintings on the walls and platinum records hanging in the bathroom.…

Politics in the dressing room

Politics in the dressing room

The director of the Mérida International Theater Festival has resigned, saying she was put under pressure to remove a large-format photograph depicting a naked actor with a crucifix covering his private parts from an exhibition connected to the event.…